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Companion post to our two-part Crime Clueless episode series On the morning of December 16, 2000, Denise Williams watched her husband leave their home on Centennial Oaks Circle in Tallahassee, Florida. It was 3am. He was headed to Lake Seminole — a sprawling reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida line — to duck hunt before dawn, […]
At the Lake By 4am: The Story of Mike Williams Read More »
A Crime Clueless companion piece It’s just before noon on a Sunday in December 2009. In a retirement community outside Las Vegas — the kind of place where every lawn is the same shade of green and nothing ever happens — a security camera catches a white Chevy Cavalier pulling up to the end of
He Walked Out of Frame: The Disappearance of Steven Koecher Read More »
On the morning of February 4, 2015, 18-year-old Sara Nicole Graham left her father’s home in Fairmont, North Carolina, and never arrived at her job at the Walmart in Pembroke. Hours later, her father’s white Chevrolet Astro van was found parked — deliberately, it seemed — in a wheat field off East McDonald Road, miles
Sara Nicole Graham: A Van in a Wheat Field, and 11 Years of Silence Read More »
In October 2008, an aspiring Edmonton filmmaker built a real-life “kill room” modeled on a television serial killer — then used it twice. One man escaped. One man didn’t. This is the full story of Mark Twitchell, the case that became known across Canada and internationally as the “Dexter Killer” murder. Who Is Mark Twitchell?
The Kill Room-Mark Twitchell: Inside the Case of Edmonton’s “Dexter Killer” Read More »
On April 15, 2005, Centre County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Ray Gricar took a half-day off work, called his girlfriend to say he was going for a drive, and was never seen again. Twenty years later, despite an FBI investigation, a laptop pulled from a river, a connection to the Jerry Sandusky scandal, and a theory
The DA Who Vanished: The Unsolved Disappearance of Ray Gricar Read More »
Arlington, Texas | October 23, 1987 | Still Unsolved She set her alarm clock for the next morning. That detail — small, ordinary, heartbreaking — is the one that investigators came back to again and again. Because it tells you everything about the state of mind of Patsy Bolton Wright on the last night of
The Wax Museum Murder – The Unsolved Murder of Patsy Bolton Wright Read More »
For decades, the domestic violence movement has run on a familiar script: the abuser is bad, the survivor should leave, and the system’s job is to punish after the fact. It’s a script that’s shaped everything from police response to funding priorities to the questions we, as a culture, instinctively ask when we hear about
Does She Feel Safer? A Conversation with SafeNest’s Liz Ortenburger Read More »
Companion post for Crime Clueless, Parts 1 & 2 — “No One Stopped – The Murder of Barbara Mae Tucker”. On the night of January 15th, 1980, multiple drivers on a road at the edge of Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon watched a 19-year-old woman run into traffic, waving her arms and begging
The Murder of Barbara Mae Tucker: A Cold Case 44 Years in the Making Read More »
Eric Preimesberger, 29, was a father of two, a motorcycle salesman, and a fixture of Reno’s scooter racing scene — the kind of guy who, according to his own mother, could land in a country where he didn’t speak the language and walk away with ten new friends by dinner. On April 24, 2010, his
Bad Entities – The Murder of Eric Preimesberger Read More »
Two weeks before Stacy Hunsucker died, a South Carolina nurse named Lana Clayton was arrested for poisoning her husband with eye drops. The case dominated regional headlines across the Charlotte area for weeks. Thirty miles away, in Mount Holly, North Carolina, a flight paramedic named Josh Hunsucker was reportedly watching. On September 23, 2018, Stacy
The Copycat Murder: Inside the Josh & Stacy Hunsucker Case Read More »
